Why wouldn’t Mahira Khan want to come back to the medium that shot her to fame in the first place?Īnother example is Humayun Saeed who plans on acting in two dramas this year. In fact, it just continues to get bigger and bigger. In the meantime, television isn’t going anywhere. No one really knows when the film industry will be fully functioning again. For someone like Mahira Khan who has been doing back-to-back films for the past five years, this is both a surprising and yet the most obvious decision to make. The “superstar” of the industry who hasn’t done a drama ever since Bin Roye back in 2016 although one can argue that since Bin Roye was a film turned into a drama her last actual drama is Sadqay Tumhare which aired in 2014, recently confessed at Hum TV’s 16th Anniversary Celebrations that she was ready to come back to dramas. However, considering the upward trending graph of views and ratings that Pakistani dramas have been generating in the past couple of years alongside the critical success and the quantifiable data that backs up the claim, the wise ones realise where exactly the real power of the Pakistani entertainment industry actually lies.įor example, Mahira Khan. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Pakistani television has showcased its reliability through the past few years, not that it needed to present any significant proof of its position as the reigning branch of the Pakistani entertainment industry. Perhaps this is why some of the biggest names in the Pakistani entertainment industry who had seemingly graduated from the small screen to the big, are now looking to come back to work on TV. TV is where the work, and the subsequent fame and safety it brings, truly lies. This durable functionality of the Pakistani television industry even during a global pandemic has once again put the focus back on this industry as being the safest representation of Pakistani entertainment as a whole. When almost the entire entertainment industry of the country had to temporarily stop functioning as they did their best to effectively adapt to the “new normal”, Pakistani dramas continued to entertain the audiences with new content. There is no better proof of this statement than the year 2020. Pakistani television continues to thrive and reach new heights of success.

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